Spell with Flickr!

March 17, 2005 7:05 AM

Spell with Flickr! [via]
posted by Quartermass (39 comments total)

Ooops. Corrected link to flickr.

On the Flickr front, check out this creepy/awesome photoset: The Mozbots.
posted by Quartermass at 7:17 AM on March 17, 2005

posted by casu marzu at 7:24 AM on March 17, 2005

posted by runningdogofcapitalism at 7:33 AM on March 17, 2005

WTF?
posted by benzo8 at 7:37 AM on March 17, 2005

This can't end well.
posted by dhoyt at 7:38 AM on March 17, 2005

It's a shame that tags alone aren't sufficient for this kind of things. For this, they use a moderated group to enforce the rules.
posted by smackfu at 7:42 AM on March 17, 2005

posted by fixedgear at 7:43 AM on March 17, 2005

Mentioned in this post. The Flickr program was created by MeFite slactoid.
posted by Arch Stanton at 7:49 AM on March 17, 2005

Didn't someone do this recently?? It wasn't flickr based, but it was the same idea. There was pics of people holding up stuff to make letters, and generally harder to read.

Mabye once refined people could use this approach for full out fonts.
posted by toochumpy at 7:50 AM on March 17, 2005

I've a feeling this thread is about to get very long, very quickly. I miss Matt.
posted by NickDouglas at 7:51 AM on March 17, 2005

Just fixing the alignment with a closing style tag. Nothing to see here, folks.
posted by iconomy at 7:57 AM on March 17, 2005

It worked on preview. Can someone hope me? This is so ugly.
posted by iconomy at 7:57 AM on March 17, 2005

Didn't someone do this recently?? It wasn't flickr based, but it was the same idea.

Seems like we've had a steady stream of these toys recently. I guess I must be missing something... ahh, to each his own.
posted by jikel_morten at 8:04 AM on March 17, 2005

Will this work? (just trying to hope...)
posted by theFlyingSquirrel at 8:04 AM on March 17, 2005

wow. this is exciting stuff people are doing with the web, which they clearly get.
posted by quonsar at 8:09 AM on March 17, 2005

posted by brownpau at 8:09 AM on March 17, 2005

posted by quonsar at 8:10 AM on March 17, 2005

posted by nthdegx at 8:15 AM on March 17, 2005

Well that's just great... you broke MetaFilter.

This is why we can't have nice things.
posted by TacoConsumer at 8:20 AM on March 17, 2005

posted by monju_bosatsu at 8:27 AM on March 17, 2005

posted by casu marzu at 8:33 AM on March 17, 2005

Is this really the first broken thread you've seen?
posted by nthdegx at 8:33 AM on March 17, 2005

I've a feeling this thread is about to get very long, very quickly. I miss Matt.

Dude, official head complainer is already taken. . .
posted by Quartermass at 8:36 AM on March 17, 2005

posted by nthdegx at 8:38 AM on March 17, 2005

...what iconomy said.
posted by nthdegx at 8:40 AM on March 17, 2005

Oh man, you guys are gonna get in such trouble when Matt gets out of the next session and checks in. Oooooooh!

Re: the FPP, this is pretty cool. I bet he could do the same and make a dynamically generated clock with pics from Flickr as well, kind of like the human time project or whatever it's called.

On Preview: Nevermind, the formatting's fixed. A spankin's been averted!
posted by fenriq at 8:42 AM on March 17, 2005

Weird, the page is good in preview but munged when it gets posted.

Reinstating the Ooooooh!
posted by fenriq at 8:44 AM on March 17, 2005

Whoa, I didn't even see that other thread.

I am totally blowing it!
posted by Quartermass at 8:44 AM on March 17, 2005

READ MUCH, FENRIQ?
posted by quonsar at 8:44 AM on March 17, 2005

Seems like we've had a steady stream of these toys recently.

Because they showed up in Boing Boing.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.
posted by NickDouglas at 8:51 AM on March 17, 2005

Yes. There's a Yahoo version and there's a Flickr version of the "spell it/web of words" toy. And there's also Amaztype, which builds letters out of pictures (of amazon products). And Robotype, which lets you make things out of letters.
posted by O9scar at 9:09 AM on March 17, 2005

Is the margin fixed now?

(worth a shot trying anyway)
posted by caution live frogs at 11:21 AM on March 17, 2005

WTF? Runningdogofcapitalism, I can't even figure out what you did to break this...
posted by caution live frogs at 11:21 AM on March 17, 2005

quonsar, heck no, that's why I like Flickr so much. I can feel smart without having to know all those big words. And I can leave my dictionary on the shelf.
posted by fenriq at 11:45 AM on March 17, 2005

posted by yhbc at 12:59 PM on March 17, 2005

Well this runningdogofcapitalism has his tail between his legs. I don't know how I did it, but I done broke this thread. It is a good thing indeed that I lurk more and post rarely. Sorry all.

The line to slap me upside the head forms to the right pls.
posted by runningdogofcapitalism at 1:24 PM on March 17, 2005

OH YEAH.

I mean, [this is very good and perfectly useless and even better because of that]
posted by jokeefe at 1:55 PM on March 17, 2005

Damn you SXSW!! *shakes fist* This is your fault!
posted by graventy at 2:33 PM on March 17, 2005

I can't even figure out how the thread's supposed to be broken. In Safari it looks just fine. *shrug*
posted by jokeefe at 7:37 PM on March 17, 2005